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Welcome to My HO Model Railroad Blog

My AC-9 Kitbash

The AC-9, SP 3805 above is the end product of a Kitbash Project from a Rivarossi Cab
Forward.

It is the second of three AC-9 Yellowstones that I rebuilt from AC-10 Cab
Forwards.
I am a devout 1950s era Southern Pacific HO Model Railroader. I have a fleet of 39
steam locomotives of which 18 are articulated and 34 diesels.

My layout is set in the mid 1950s in the Southern New Mexico/West Texas area. I grew
up in El Paso Texas during the end of the Steam Era and lived in Alamogordo, NM during the
1960s & 70s. My wife and I are both retired and now reside in Bakersfield California. We have lived on both ends of the Southern Pacific Cab Forward Southern Route.

This Blog is about my HO Model Railroad Hobby and how I model the Southern Pacific from my memories of the
mid 1950s era as a teenager. I wrote a short synopsis of my back ground that can be found by going to my About Me page.

My First HO Locomotive

Way back in the fall of 1952 I bought my first HO Locomotive, it was a MDC/Model Roundhouse 0-6-0 Switch Engine Kit, I still have it and it is still in prefect condition. It cost $6.85 back then, I used my Newspaper Route money to purchase it from H&H Hobby Shop in El Paso Texas.

My Greatest Railroad Treasure

It's a Fawcett Book Number 133, it cost 45¢ in 1951. That was a lot of money in 1951, a 24 bottle case of Cokes was 65¢ back then. There is an article starting on page 28 on John Allen's railroad, there is only 4 pages on his layout but I was hooked on HO scale from that day on.

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